Sauron, the Kinda Dim Lord by user6619472

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck pilots as a Grixis value-control build helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging his triggered ability to amass Orcs whenever opponents cast spells and his Ring-temptation draw engine to bury opponents in card advantage. The primary path to victory is combat damage from a growing Orc Army, supplemented by Lord of the Nazgul Wraith tokens, theft effects, and recursion. The deck generates incremental value through instant and sorcery synergies (Saruman, the White Hand, Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription), while larger threats like Cavern-Hoard Dragon and Scourge of the Throne provide burst damage. Reanimation spells (Living Death, Reanimate) act as both threat recovery and pseudo-tutors for key creatures. The strategy is attrition-based, aiming to outlast opponents through card flow and board presence rather than combo lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Bitter Downfall
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consider
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Dark Fortress
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Forbidden Alchemy
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1 Inferno Titan
• 6 Island
• 1 Knollspine Dragon
• 1 Lidless Gaze
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Profane Memento
• 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Revenge of Ravens
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Shiny Impetus
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Darkness Crystal
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 The Scarlet Witch
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 V.A.T.S.
• 1 Voracious Fell Beast
• 1 Whispering Madness
• 1 Worn Powerstone